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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
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The MS-20 Synthesizer: A Machine That Can Make Vowel Sounds
Defunk was the first hit off of Homework, and even though it doesn't have any vocals, there is a vocality to it. What's wild about the sound from Defunk from the MS-20 synthesizer is that it's not just sounding like a voice, it's actually generating sound kind of like the same way our voice makes a vowel sound. The MS-20 has two resonant filters, a high one and a low one, that creates two resonant bumps just like the way that our voice forms a vowel. So check it out, you can take the MS- 20 and begin with a raw sound, and then bring in the high resonance, and then the
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